Steamer for New Zealand
LONDON, Monday.—The steamer Banks Peninsular, newly built for the New Zealand trade, has averaged twelve knots an hour on her trial trip…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1889
310 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 16
Wreck
LONDON, Tuesday.—The ship Walter Raleigh, which left Sydney on November the 10th, ran ashore at Andressels, on the French coast, near Boulongue. She is…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The ship Water Raleigh has gone ashore on the French coast, and five of the crew have been drowned. [The ship Sir Walter Raleigh left for London on…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—Particulars with respect to the accident to the ship Sir Walter Raleigh show that she grounded yesterday morning at 3…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The French underwriters ask seventy-five guineas per cent. to re-insure the cargo of the vessel Sir Walter Raleigh, from Sydney, now on shore on the…
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Captain Tornaros, of the labour schooner Myrtle, brought so ne wreckage of the ship Eastminster to Maryborough on the 22nd ult. A portion has been for warded to Captain Heath, R.N., portmaster at…
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LONDON, Sunday.—The ship Sir Walter Raleigh, which was stranded near Andressels, on the French coast, is now dismantled. The vessel is being unloaded…
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The captain of the excursion steamer Ozone was fined £5 and costs for carrying excessive number of passengers. POISONED BY BRAWN…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The barque Roseneath, which had been put on the berth at Glasgow for Adelaide, has been totally wrecked at Port Patrick, on the coast of…
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On January 1 a new steamer, built to the order of the White Star Company, was launched from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Queen's Island, Belfast. The vessel, which…
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A PAINFUL narrative of shipwreck and loss of life in the Bay of Biscay is told of the steamer Storm Queen, from Sebastopol for Holland, which was…
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AMSTERDAM, Monday.—The heavy gales which have prevailed in Great Britain and on the Continent, were also felt with great severity throughout Holland. The ship…
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The register of wrecks and shipping casualties on the coast of New South Wales during the past year has been published by the Marine Board. The register shows that fifteen vessels, representing…
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News has been received by cable that a splendid steel-built barque, the Ben Avon, has been wrecked at Scheveningen, on the coast of South Holland. She was bound to Sydney from Hamburg, and had…
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The captain and crew of the wrecked schooner Neptune, which went ashore during a voyage from Richmond River to Melbourne, near Gippsland, arrived in Melbourne…
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COLOMBO, Monday.—The Norddentscher Lloyd steamer Hohenstauffen, which had broken her main shaft one thousand miles away at sea, was to-day towed back to this…
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Great excitement was occasioned at Lyttelton on Monday when it became known that the New Zealand Shipping Company's R.M.S. Kaikoura was on fire. The fire originated in…
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A TELEGRAM from Circular Head conveys the information that the s.s. Southern Cross, which had been so many years in the Melbourne and Tasmanian passage trade, had…
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The following are the names of the passengers lost in the wreck of the steamship priam, which was reported in Saturday's issue:—Mr. and Mrs. Darbyshire and maid, Elizabeth Smith, all of…
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On February 21 there was picked up on the south beach of Bustard Head (Q.) a lifebuoy with the name "Patonga" painted on it. The buoy had, to all appearances, not been long in the water, and…
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